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The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)

Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 110

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linenfold pattern form such excellent foils forthe distinctly Renaissance scroll-carving of the horizontal panels asto silence the purists who object to transitional work. The details of the cocksheaded S-shaped scrolls, as well as therepetition of the depressed line of the stonework arch by the… … BRITISH DECORATIVE FURNITURE—TUDOR 69 design and workmanship that, though of an ecclesiastical character,one cannot ignore them. Fuller says of the Screen and Choir Stalls,erected between 1531 and 1535 in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge,the stonework and woodwork contend which shallthe most deserve…

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